• Emacs Carnival writing theme for July: Writing experience
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Jul 16 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Jul 26 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • 3 Ways to Manually Install Emacs Packages (03:36)
  • Configuring Emacs (01:44:41)
  • Brainiac v1.0 released — Kemal's Braindump (Reddit)
  • minimal-emacs.d - Better Defaults and Faster Startup (Release: 1.3.0) (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • distichum/datagrid: Work with grids of data in Emacs. (Reddit)
  • Ep679 Emacs Lisp JSON, Serialize Idiocy, Crimes of Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge (01:06:40)
  • Ep680 JSON in Emacs Lisp and Wolfram Language (57:30)
  • Emacs Package Development: The Emacs Reader (VII: Manipulating Pages in Multiple Windows) - Dyne.org TV (@divyaranjan@mathstodon.xyz)
• Appearance:
  • South: A bright, summery Emacs theme 🌱☀️🌊 (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • Chris Maiorana: Keep your flow with a “back” button for Emacs (Irreal)
• Writing:
  • TAONAW - Harper: quick, light and private grammer check for Emacs
• Org Mode:
  • Donovan R.: My Emacs journey (3) - Agenda for everyone
  • Jakub Nowak: Architecting a Better Org Workflow
  • Capturing Org Source Blocks (Reddit)
  • more general version of org-babel-demarcate-block
• Denote:
  • How I use Emacs + Denote to take notes as a researcher (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: reorder Denote file name components
• Coding:
  • konrad1977/flyover: A beautiful inline overlay for Emacs (Flycheck | Flymake) (Reddit, Irreal)
  • forgejo fj.el release 0.16: reactions, fixes
  • rough elisp Swagger API client codegen update
  • C++ development in Emacs: clangd and eglot (13:45)
  • Using Python in Emacs (@danliden.com on Bluesky)
  • Release CIDER 1.19 ("Skiathos") · clojure-emacs/cider · GitHub
  • Coding "Static Site Generator" | Emacs - Rhhen - Python | Pt. 2 (47:38)
• Shells:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Interacting with an unreliable process
  • showcase of outline-minor-mode and imenu in the eshell buffer (02:27)
• Web:
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs: Open URLs or search the web, plus browse-url-handlers (Irreal)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • gnus local IMAP pipeline config for dovecot 2.4 (breaking changes)
• Evil mode:
  • TIL: evil-respect-visual-line-mode
• Multimedia:
  • Emacs Magical Music Showcase (with EMMS, Embark, and Dired) (00:42)
• AI:
  • Steve Yegge: Emacs comes to life (coding agent inside Emacs; no code shared)
  • macher 0.2.0: integration with gptel presets
  • Adding images to gptel Org chat from system clipboard
  • creating quick github issue out of code via gptel and mcp
  • The Most Simple Emacs Mode to Interact With OpenAI/ChatGPT API | lesson 11 (16:58)
• Community:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Join me for ‘Prot Asks’ public video calls about Emacs and life in general (Reddit)
    • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: Carlos about Emacs for engineering, free software, and Spain
• Other:
  • Emacs Ninja - CVE-2025-1244: From Emacs URL Handler to RCE
    • Lars Ingebrigtsen: Me, after reading the first half of the bug#66390 thread
  • Updating to Emacs v30 (16:22)
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Launching a script with a keyboard shortcut on a Mac?
  • Fix to Longstanding Pdf-Tools Bug #emacs (00:49)
  • nobody knows that using Emacs in the terminal is so great (05:18, Reddit)
  • Comparing Emacs Reader's Performance With Other Document Readers - Dyne.org TV
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel: More discussion about submitting bug reports for Emacs or packages
  • * src/xdisp.c (tab-bar-truncate): New variable (bug#78953).
  • tramp-file-name-with-method can be set connection-local
  • New global minor mode vc-auto-revert-mode
  • ; * etc/NEWS (log-edit-maybe-show-diff): Undo recent change.
  • Allow duplicate menu entries in Imenu
  • Add option 'ffap-prefer-remote-file' (bug#78925)
  • Revert "Add option 'ffap-prefer-remote-file' (bug#78925)"
  • Add option 'ffap-prefer-remote-file' (bug#78925)
  • New command 'mode-line-invisible-mode'
  • Add public interfaces for accessing builtin package info (Bug#78844)
  • Update documentation and NEWS with SVG changes (bug#77841)
  • Add NEWS entry for abbreviating Git revisions in 'vc-annotate'
• New packages:
  • asdf-vm: ASDF-VM porcelain (MELPA)
  • consult-hn: Hacker News search with Consult (MELPA)
  • exec-in-buffer: Choose programs to execute on buffers in projects (MELPA)
  • org-table-highlight: Highlight Org table columns and rows (MELPA)
  • repeat-ring: Structured and configurable repetition (MELPA)
  • repo-grep: Project-wide grep search (MELPA)
  • ultra-scroll: Fast and smooth scrolling (MELPA)

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